Nuxt 4.1 brings enhanced build stability, better development experience, and much more

The Nuxt team has released Nuxt 4.1, delivering several features focused on stability and developer workflow improvements. Build stability has been enhanced using import maps, which prevent cascading hash changes from invalidating large parts of a build after small code edits. Developers managing large applications will especially benefit from this build reliability.

Alongside this, experimental support for the rolldown-vite bundler introduces Rust-powered build capabilities, potentially accelerating build times for production deployments and continuous integration pipelines. Nuxt 4.1 also upgrades lazy hydration macros, which now function independently from auto-imports. This improvement enhances reliability in projects where component auto-discovery is turned off.

For teams making use of experimental route rules extraction, these rules are now exposed on a dedicated rules property within NuxtPage objects. This advance makes route configurations more accessible to modules and supports ongoing architecture upgrades. While these headline features take center stage, the release also brings improvements for module development, updates to developer experience, and various bug fixes.

All highlighted features are also available in Nuxt 3.19. Nuxt continues supporting users on the v3 branch by backporting compatible v4 changes to maximize the reach of new development work.